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mahina

(18,942 posts)
Sun Aug 14, 2022, 04:07 PM Aug 2022

Some very good news in yesterday's primaries in Hawai'i.

Our candidate for US House cd 2 is Jill Tokuda. She is reliably progressive and will be a very good partner with Mazie Hirono and Brian Schatz.

Our candidate for lt gov will be Sylvia Luke, a very skilled and competent legislator who has proven independence and courage. They both have.

Both were opposed by the same baddies who ran extremely nasty carpet bombing campaign ads funded by shadow puppets for the rail lobby. (Our massive $ rail project that is crumbling before it even runs a single passenger, siphoning unimaginable $$$$). Vote Vets ran attack ads with that same old bs, cherry-picking and hyperdrama. Thank goodness it failed or we would have a complete noob with only one very forgettable state house term to his name for experience running for US House and a rail lobbyist for lt gov.

Other good things happened too that I won’t get into.

Not all good news- Ikaika Hussey didn’t prevail in a city council against a very unpleasant character, to my sorrow.

I’ll leave the Gov’s race to others.


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Some very good news in yesterday's primaries in Hawai'i. (Original Post) mahina Aug 2022 OP
Good News leftieNanner Aug 2022 #1
Count on her to slither through any open portal mahina Aug 2022 #2
She's been filling in for Tucker Carlson, apparently. leftieNanner Aug 2022 #3

leftieNanner

(15,698 posts)
1. Good News
Sun Aug 14, 2022, 04:24 PM
Aug 2022

Please tell me that Tulsi Gabbard won't peek her head out from her slimy rock ever again.

Some folks here have suggested that she would run for US Senate next time. Ugh.

mahina

(18,942 posts)
2. Count on her to slither through any open portal
Sun Aug 14, 2022, 06:30 PM
Aug 2022

That is to her advantage. Ugh.

Isn’t she standing in for some far right winger on Fox?

I don’t think she lives here anymore.

She is an excellent example of how we the people people shut our brains off. She was never a democrat but used hot button issues to gather support.

In all fairness though she was the first to raise Red Hill fuels storage leak into out aquifer.

That’s the only positive I can share other than that I’m positive she’s an agent of a foreign govt.

leftieNanner

(15,698 posts)
3. She's been filling in for Tucker Carlson, apparently.
Sun Aug 14, 2022, 07:07 PM
Aug 2022

As you said, UGH.

Hawaii has sent some wonderful people to Congress, so there's that.

Let's hope she doesn't "slither" to Washington DC.

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